Within the framework of supporting livestock products that meet climate-resistant development criteria and introduce them to the market, investment exhibition was organized under the project “Improving Adaptive Capacity and Risk Management of Rural People in Mongolia (ADAPT)”.
In this activity, the governors of the four provinces where the project is implemented, the directors of the provincial Food and Agriculture Department, the head of the Veterinary Medical Department, the elected governors of eight soums, representatives of herdsmen’s organizations, livestock processing industries and their associations, the United Nations Development Program, relevant management of the Ministry of Environment and Tourism, and Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Light Industry and representatives of the private sector and government organizations have participated.
At the exhibition, participants were introduced to the sustainable model of animal husbandry products that will be tested in eight sub-districts of the four provinces of the project.
Within the framework of the ADAPT project, the following model activities will be implemented in eight soums:
• Agreement on the use of pastures to match the number of livestock to the carrying capacity of the pastures, and incentives from the management of soums to support the herdsmen in fulfilling their obligations under the agreement (payment for ecosystem services)
• Pastoralist groups undertake to establish a healthy and peaceful area free of infectious diseases at the level of contract pastures to ensure product quality
• Livestock farmers’ organizations should implement the activity of bringing teen animals into economic circulation by fattening lambs
• Concentrating livestock, meat, and cashmere in one place, verifying quality and origin, buying and selling through cooperatives and agricultural exchanges to cooperating private processing plants
According to Article 60.2.8 of the Budget law, it states to implement model activities in the direction of adaptation to climate change that can be implemented in soums from the livestock tax to achieve mentioned activities.
The exhibition is organized by the ADAPT project which is implemented by the United Nations Development Program, the Ministry of Environment and Tourism, and the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Light Industry and is funded by the Green Climate Fund. ADAPT project will be implemented in Khovd, Zavkhan, Dornod, and Sukhbaatar provinces within 2021 to 2028.
